Ex-Odisha police chief Sanjeev Marik JMM candidate from Godda

Ranchi: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Friday announced the name of former Odisha police chief Sanjeev Marik as party candidate from Godda and Shashibhusan Mehta from Panki Assembly constituencies to contest the May 16 bypolls.

“Our party has decided to field Sanjeev Marik from Godda and Shashibhusan Mehta from Panki in the bypolls,” JMM’s working president and former chief minister Hemant Soren told a press conference here.

Marik had joined the JMM recently.

Asked if the party was looking to forge an alliance, Soren said the party had not left any stone unturned in trying foran alliance, but no party showed any “special interest” in it leaving JMM to prepare for itself.